Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.

Download or read book It Only Took Me 22 Years to be this Awesome written by Susan Gusman Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a birthday gift for sloth lovers? Then this awesome journal is for you, Grab this cute notebook as a great birthday gift for boys and girls.

Download or read book It Only Took Me 22 Years to be this Awesome written by Susan Gusman Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-26 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for a birthday gift for Llama lovers? Then this awesome journal is for you, Grab this cute notebook as a great birthday gift for boys and girls.

Download or read book Destination Awesome written by Amiee Mueller and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to achieving life success as told through the inspiring and humorous accounts of the author and other young adults. Part self-help, part memoir, Destination Awesome is both a beacon and a road map that will help young adults of every background achieve independence, success, and fulfillment. No matter if you’re living with your parents, in school housing, or couch-surfing; no matter if you have big dreams, simple plans, or are unsure of what you want to do with your life; no matter the money in your bank, the challenges you face or the number of contacts in your phone, the simple, relatable lessons in Destination Awesome will help you create the life you desire. Destination Awesome covers every strategy through Mueller’s own experiences as well as those of other young adults who have succeeded against all odds. Mueller reveals how she became the only member of her family to escape a poverty-stricken, unstable, and physically and emotionally wounding environment. She grabs at your heart, pulls you in, and offers a distinctive perspective on achievement. Whether your challenges are the same as these young adults—a negative home environment, drug addiction, a physical ailment, unplanned pregnancy, homelessness, cockroach infestation, uncontrollable vomiting—or something completely different, the strategies you’ll learn will help you create your awesome life.

Download or read book Awesome by Accident How adapting to a tragic accident led me to create my extraordinary life written by Gene R. Rodgers and published by BookLocker.com. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awesome by Accident is about a precocious 17 year old boy, Gene R. Rodgers, whose future is all mapped out for him. He has grown to appreciate the values of self-reliance, stoicism, determination, and tenaciousness as taught to him by his parents. Rodgers’s plans for the future reflect all of those values as he declares his decision to homestead in Alaska. His decision is emblematic of earlier plans to row solo across Lake Erie. Undeterred by lack of experience, he proceeds with confidence to make his dreams and plans a reality. Paralyzed in a hiking accident, he must rethink his future. Rodgers’ spirit is tested to its core as he struggles to make sense of his new life. He languishes in uncertainty while the gravity of his situation slowly becomes clear to him. Unable to accept his probable future he attempts suicide only to have his plans thwarted by a quick thinking no nonsense doctor. Rodgers decides to work relentlessly to successfully become rehabilitated. Now thrown into a world not of his making, Rodgers must find a way to once again embrace his family’s value of self-reliance. To become self-reliant, he must leave the security of home, the support system that protects him. Can he survive on his own? Is that even possible? He struggles to identify an acceptable career path. He relies on a post-secondary education to give him an edge in employment somewhere in the science field. While away at school, he decides not to let school get in the way of his education. Dorm life suits him well and he makes friends that change his life. One of Rodgers’ friends, Bruce, enlightens him to the possibilities the world has to offer. He meets Jane who is instrumental to his emotional healing and well-being. Rodgers contemplates a life with Jane permanently a part of it. Making a life long emotional commitment will mean sacrificing a more solitary life he still seeks. Bruce, Rodgers and other school friends travel throughout North America enjoying many adventures along the way. These experiences mold Rodgers into an undefeatable force as he embraces his mantra, fortune favors the brave. Rodgers becomes confident he can live independently, becoming self-reliant, as his family would expect. Though given a poor hand, he has played it well. Armed with a strong foundation of academics and endowed with social capital to support a life worth living, Rodgers builds an impressive resume. He earns a B.S. Ed to teach science in secondary education. He also earns an MBA and a Switzer Fellowship. His experiences become more varied and demanding as he worked in three states, traveled in 44 countries on six continents. He has enjoyed adventure sports including snow skiing, ski diving, paragliding, sailing on tall-ships, scuba diving, and trekking to name a few. He becomes an entrepreneur and subsequently a self-made millionaire. The more he learned and experienced, the more humble he became. Wherever he traveled, it was the people, not the place, that fulfilled him. Rodgers learned how to bounce back, to recover, to accomplish more than most people, able bodied or not. In Awesome by Accident, Rodgers repeatedly affirms that fortune does indeed favor the brave.

Download or read book WanderLOST written by Jacob Sims and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “WanderLOST is a beautiful story, a tremendous global-adventure kind of story...Sims asks all the right questions. He gently invites you to ask them with him. He travels the world and brings you along. He offers the hope he has found with a humility that invites you to ponder with him where you have found hope”. – Shane Claiborne, Author, Activist This exuberant coming of age story charts one millennial’s decades-long globetrotting adventure in pursuit of meaning, significance, and belonging. With each intriguing anecdote, harrowing encounter, and entertaining mishap the author challenges readers to reckon with accepted notions of freedom and identity. Sims expertly melds memoir with moral philosophy as he weighs the costs of a life in pursuit of liberty and happiness. In the void left from this path, WanderLOST offers readers glimpses of wholeness in the deeper journey of learning to love.

Download or read book The Other Black Girl written by Zakiya Dalila Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get Out meets The Devil Wears Prada in this electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing. Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant Nella Rogers is tired of being the only Black employee at Wagner Books. Fed up with the isolation and microaggressions, she's thrilled when Harlem-born and bred Hazel starts working in the cubicle beside hers. They've only just started comparing natural hair care regimens, though, when a string of uncomfortable events elevates Hazel to Office Darling, and Nella is left in the dust. Then the notes begin to appear on Nella's desk: LEAVE WAGNER. NOW. It's hard to believe Hazel is behind these hostile messages. But as Nella starts to spiral and obsess over the sinister forces at play, she soon realizes that there's a lot more at stake than just her career. A whip-smart and dynamic thriller and sly social commentary that is perfect for anyone who has ever felt manipulated, threatened, or overlooked in the workplace, The Other Black Girl will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last twist"--

Download or read book The Wild Robot written by Peter Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.

Download or read book Sixteen Red written by C. J. Coombs and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen Red takes you deep into the life of an abused child, (sexual molestation, dehumanizing circumstances, mental torment) a troubled teen, (unplanned pregnancy, abortion, failed suicide) and a young man with an insatiable appetite for success and understanding.Sixteen Red was written in the original voice of the author, and offers a glimpse into a world rarely seen or spoken of by the mainstream, from a highly unique and uncensored perspective that you won't soon forget.

Download or read book The Burning Ones written by Jerame Nelson and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burning Ones is a call to action. Christians will be encouraged and motivated to consider seriously stepping in the role of “burning ones” and “dread champions” to spread the Kingdom of God in the earth. Vivid and detailed descriptions of these champions are given throughout the book, supported with biblical examples and modern-day personal experiences, including real-life healings worldwide. Each of the seven chapters concludes with “Burning Questions” designed to stimulate thought and action, followed by a space for the reader to record “Your Response.” A “Prayer to Get You There” connects the reader with the Lord in a genuine way that caps the vital issues covered in the chapter.

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Download or read book Hyperbole and a Half written by Allie Brosh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!

Download or read book My Zoe written by Valerie James and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compelling adventure about a black woman born in Michigan in the mid 1950s and as a child surviving accidents after accidents that could have been tragedy to her life, but by her strong will and deep rooted faith she managed to triumph though it all. It tells about her struggle to raise her children as a single parent, her bad relationships with her men friends and childrens fathers, divorce, Church involvement and the love for Jesus that kept her from falling apart and held it all together. Dealing with not being accepted as a person or measuring up to her full potentials but still managed to accomplish her goals and kept a positive attitude, compassion, and the belief that you can be what and who you set your mind out to be.

Download or read book True Love Never Ends written by Lupe Kuharsky and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Lupe Kuharsky and was married to my better-half, Bob Kuharsky, for 52 years, 2 months and 25 days when the Lord called him home. I have a son, a daughter, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and two amazing grandchildren. I also have three sisters, two brothers-in-law, a niece, and two nephews. My extended family consists of uncles, aunts, and cousins living in the United States and some in Mexico. I was born in Mexico, but raised and lived in Texas. After getting married, I moved to Long Island, New York. My husband and I lived there for 41⁄2 years and we returned to Texas and never regretted leaving New York. After leaving New York, we lived in Corpus Christi, Texas, and then in Mesquite, Texas; where I was employed by Mesquite Independent School district. Now I live in Wylie, Texas and I am a retired educator. After retirement, I wrote my first book and published it December 2015. The book is titled Inspiring Migrant Memoirs, which is a true Migrant story honoring my parents.

Download or read book Touched by Cancer written by Mark Irving Lovell and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark’s journey and battle with cancer at the young age of fifty-one came as a complete shock as you can imagine. Eating right, exercising, and living for the future instead of living for the moment was Mark’s approach to life. “I want to be healthy,” he said, ready for his golden years, but then suddenly, within just a few short months, everything fell apart! Progressing from no symptoms whatsoever to advanced stage-four non-Hodgkin Burkitt lymphoma in less than three months, Mark was in big, big trouble! He had been diagnosed with one of the most aggressive forms of cancer anyone can get, and so his battle to survive began with the help from his wife and over thirty doctors. Mark poses an interesting question in this book that asks you to reflect on your life, back to the first memories from your childhood. How do our choices in life and the consequences of those choices affect our life’s path? Those decisions can ultimately determine our physical and mental health?

Download or read book The Couples Castle written by Aaron B. Bird PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you journey through the castles rooms with the main charactersEmma and Titus, Isabella and Zeb, Olivia and Oliveryoull discover how you, too, can become one of the greatest love stories ever told. After all these years of humans walking around on earth, the statistics remains the same: 50 percent divorce and another 40 percent do not have the kind of marriage they wish for their kids. Only about 10 percent are living an authentic happily ever after. How the 10 percenters got there is what youll discover inside the couples castle. They know what drives relationships in todays world is rapidly changing. The old days of treating the wedding ceremony with pixie dust and the be-all and end-all and providing four walls and a roof with dinner served promptly at 5:00 p.m. arent enough anymore. They want more... because theres more to be had. This book offers the relationship blueprint to experience the ultimate relationship, find the love of your life, and make your marriage a masterpieceall within a fun and fast-paced narrative. Join the books couples in their race through the castles rooms to find a real happily ever after and discover all thats possible for you.

Download or read book The Pastime in the Seventies written by Bill Ballew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-10-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1970s represent one of the most turbulent times in baseball's history. This decade of disco was for baseball fans the decade of divisions and DH's. The major leagues grew by four teams in 1969, and aligned themselves into divisions for the first time. The owners added the designated hitter in 1973 to provide additional offense to a game they feared was becoming dull. Labor strife became a recurring problem during the early part of the decade, and it led to free agency. Herein are interviews with 16 players who played during the turbulent 1970s. John Montefusco, Fred Lynn, Ron Cey, Vida Blue, Jerry Koosman, Rick Wise, Jeff Burroughs, Butch Wynegar, Fred Patek, Darrell Evans, Bob Boone, Buddy Bell, Don Gullett, Tommy John, Don Money, and Al Oliver tell how baseball really was in the 70s. Each interview is preceded by a short profile of the player and noteworthy statistics, transactions and accomplishments.